The House inquiry launched Thursday with a brazen attempt to portray the federal government as weaponized against Americans.
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Driver pleads not guilty to attempted murder in cliff plunge
A Tesla driver is accused of trying to kill his wife and two young children by driving off a Northern California cliff.
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Nicaragua frees 222 opponents of Ortega, sends them to U.S.
The inmates, considered by many as political prisoners of the government of President Daniel Ortega, arrived in Washington on Thursday.
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The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school
Hundreds of thousands of students who have dropped off public school rolls since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic are unaccounted for.
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Pence subpoenaed by special counsel investigating Trump’s role in Jan. 6
The scenario comes as Mike Pence considers launching a 2024 presidential bid against former President Donald Trump.
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Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools
The mystery will be a tough one to solve.
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Ukraine’s Zelensky makes emotional appeal for EU membership
The Ukrainian president wraps up a two-day trip to seek new weaponry from the West.
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U.S. House votes to condemn China over balloon surveillance
In a Congress riven by partisan splits, the shared anxiety over China’s stealthy balloon surveillance program and the reach of Beijing’s global military provided an unusual opening for bipartisan agreement.
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Military leaders defend response to Chinese spy balloon when pressed by Collins
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, questioned military leaders as vice chair of the Senate’s Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
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U.S. says China balloon could collect intelligence signals
Before the U.S. offered new information, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson repeated the nation’s insistence the large unmanned balloon was a civilian meteorological airship that had blown off course.